Cynthia Howard

Contact Information Phone: 612-625-8383 Fax: 612-625-2920 Email: drcindy@umn.edu Address: CLINIC: Pediatric Specialty Care 2512 Building, Third Floor 2512 S. 7th St. Minneapolis, MN 55454 612-365-6777 OFFICE: 717 Delaware St SE Mail Code 1932 Minneapolis, MN  55414 International Adoption Clinic Pubmed Listing of Publications

Cindy Howard is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the International Adoption Clinic (IAC) and Director of Global Health Education in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Howard sees patients in the IAC (outpatient, Fairview Pediatric Specialty Clinic) and on the Pediatric Infectious Disease unit at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital (inpatient).

Dr. Howard received two University of Minnesota grants that funded her completion of a competency-based global health curriculum for residents and medical students.

She completed an undergraduate B.A. (biology) and medical school at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her residency at University of Alabama, Birmingham. She completed a fellowship in pediatric infecious diease and earned a masters degree in public health and tropical medicine at Tulane University.

TEACHING

Dr. Howard teaches medical students, residents and fellows in both the local global health elective and elective in international adoption medicine. She presents frequently on global infectious disease topics at resident noon lectures, and she gives several talks each year during the Global Health Course--the audience of which is comprised of medical professionals from around the world. She also is frequenly an invited speaker to other colleges and universities on how to develop dynamic and viable pediatric global health residency programs.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Howard CR, Gladding SP, Kiguli S, Andrews JS, John CC. Development of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Global Child Health. Acad Med. 2011 Apr;86(4):521-528.

Slusher T, Gbadero D, Howard C, Toro L, McCracken G. A prospective double blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of dexamethasone therapy for pediatric patients with sepsis syndrome or septic shock. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 1996;579-583.

Meier D, Tarpley J, Olaolorun A, Howard C, Price C. Hematogenous osteomyelitis in the developing world: a practical approach to classification and treatment with limited resources. Contemporary Orthopaedics, 1993;26:495-505.